SOME OF OUR ANCESTORS

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DIRECT ANCESTORS

JOSEPH BECKWITH
Early settler of Connecticut.
Died in Queen Anne's War in 1708.

SUSANNAH CLEGG
Born ABT 1780
Daughter of Lt. Alexander Clegg and Margaret Farmer. She and her sister were taken PRISONER by Indians. Simon Girty was instrumental in her release. She married SAMUEL MINOR.

JAMES COCHRAN
Born 18 March 1809 Virginia
Commissioned Major of the Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Regiment of the Infantry of the Line, in the Twentieth Brigade and Third Division of the VIRGINIA MILITIA, 2 March 1839.

JACOB HOLTZCLAW
Born 1683 Germany
A member of the FIRST GERMANNA COLONY in VIRGINIA.

THOMAS MINOR
Born 1608 England. In 1645, he joined John Winthrop Jr.'s colony of Massachusetts Puritans in the settlement of New London, CT. In 1652, he moved to Pawcatuck, CT, and with his father-in-law, WALTER PALMER, and two others, was a FOUNDER of Stonington, Connecticut.... He served as a Lieutenant in King Phillip's War, as did his son, our ancestor, CLEMENT MINOR.

THOMAS SAYRE
Baptized 20 July 1597
A FOUNDER of Southampton, Long Island, NY

COLONEL MORGAN MORGAN
Born 1 November 1688 Wales
The FIRST PERMANENT (non-Native American) SETTLER in West Virginia.

WILHELM WAGGONER
Born ABT 1706 in Dutch Flanders, Germany
KILLED and SCALPED by Indians near his home on the South Branch in Virginia. Daughter, Mary, also killed. Son, Peter, taken hostage. Another son, John, was attacked by Indians at his home in Hacker's Creek. He managed to escape, but his wife (Margaret Bonnett) and some of his children were killed.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

CORNELIUS ATKINSON
Born 1732 IR; died 1815 PA
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

CAPTAIN JOHN BAKER
Born ABT 1740 Germany
Served from VIRGINIA
Near present-day Moundsville, WV, he built BAKER'S STATION, a rendezvous of scouts along the Indian war path of the Muskingham Valley into Virginia. Captain Baker was WOUNDED by Indians across the river and DIED after being returned to the station. He and John Wetzel, along with others killed by Indians, are buried nearby. A monument was erected in Riverview Cemetery, Moundsville, in his honor.

CHARLES BOYLE(S)
Born 1722
From VIRGINIA

JONATHAN BRITTAIN (BRITTON)
Not confirmed, but is said to have served and also paid others to serve for him.
From VIRGINIA

SAMUEL BRITTAIN (BRITTON)
VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE

THOMAS CARTER
Born 1753
Served from VIRGINIA

THOMAS CHANDLER
Born 1762
Served from NORTH CAROLINA

LT. ALEXANDER CLEGG
Born ABT 1757
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA

JAMES COCHRAN
Born ABT 1751
From VIRGINIA

WALTER CUNNINGHAM
Born 1749 Virginia
Served from VIRGINIA.

JAMES EAGON Born 1740 MD
Served from MARYLAND

CALEB FURBEE
Born 1752 Delaware
Served from DELAWARE

THOMAS GORBY
Born 1730 Pennsylvania
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

CALDER HAYMOND
Born 1733 MD
Served from VIRGINIA

NATHANIEL "NATHAN" HOLTZCLAW
Born ABT 1754 Virginia
Served from VIRGINIA

JOHN JANES
Born 1752 Staffordshire, England
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

MORGAN JONES
Born 1740 Delaware
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

JOHN LANTZ
Born 1749 Maryland
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

JOHN WESLEY LEAP
Born 1745
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

JEREMIAH LONG
Born 1756 Maryland
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

DAVID MARIS
Born 1753 Pennsylvania
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

THOMAS McCOY
Born Abt 1740 Pennsylvania
Served from PENNSYLVANIA

CAPTAIN WILLIAM MINOR
Born 1735 Virginia
Served from VIRGINIA.

DAVID MORGAN
Born 12 May 1721
Called "The Indian Fighter"
From VIRGINIA.... Also in FRENCH-INDIAN WAR

LT. MORGAN "MOD" MORGAN
Born 20 1746
Served from VIRGINIA.

COL. (E) ZACKQUILL MORGAN
Born ABT 1735. FOUNDER of Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. From Myers' History of West Virginia, "In the year 1758 a settlement was effected near the mouth of Decker's Creek by Thomas Decker and others, but in the following spring a party of Mingoes and Delawares surprised and murdered them. Fourteen years later a small stockade fort was erected by the Morgans on the site of the present city of Morgantown. - In October, 1785, fifty acres of the farm of Zackquell Morgan were "vested in Samuel Hanway, John Evans, David Scott, Michael Kearnes and James Dougherty, gentlemen, trustees, to be by them, or any of them, laid off in lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets, which shall be, and the same are hereby established, a town by name of Morgantown."
Served from VIRGINIA.

JACOB NESTER
Born ABT 1762
BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA

JACOB PRICKETT
Born ABT 1722 New Jersey
VIRGINIA - Also served with General George Washington in Braddock's 1758 campaign against the Indians in the Monongalia Region........The JACOB PRICKETTS (father and son), with DAVID MORGAN, son of COL. MORGAN MORGAN, first settlers of WV, along with the families of ICE, HALL, HAYES, COCHRAN, CUNNINGHAM, HARTLEY, BARNES, HAYMOND, and SPRINGER, settled near present-day Fairmont, just before the American Revolution. When in 1774 the Indians began to menace them(?), these families built FORT PRICKETT.

DAVID SAYRE
Born 1736 New Jersey
From NEW JERSEY

CHARLES SNODGRASS
Born 1742 Ireland
From VIRGINIA

JOSEPH WORKMAN
Born 1734-36 New Jersey
Served from MARYLAND

PETER YOHO
Born ABT 1745 Pennsylvania
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA

JOHN YOUST (YOUST)
Born ABT 1750 Bavaria, Germany
From PENNSYLVANIA

WAR OF 1812

GILBERT BOYLES
Born 1772 in Ireland; s/o Charles. Served as Private, 2nd Regt. Va. (Evan's) Militia; died 1835.

DAVID CUNNINGHAM
Born 1795 Harrison County, Virginia(WV); died Marion County, WV 22 March 1865.

ALEXANDER LANTZ Born 1793 WV; died 7 Jan 1873, Wetzel County, WV; served from Virginia.

JOHAN PETER SHAFFER
Born 29 November 1788, Germany; d. 16 October 1865, Valley Furnace, Barbour Co., WV. Served from Virginia.

CIVIL WAR

GEORGE ATKINSON
Born 20 October 1846, OH; died 20 February 1924 in Combs, Ritchie County, WV
Served in Company "F", 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

ALEXANDER HOBACK
From Wayne County, WV; First W.Va. Cavalry; killed in battle.

JACOB CONRAD SMITH
Private, Company "C", 133rd Regiment, WEST VIRGINIA STATE MILITIA
Died at ANDERSONVILLE Confederate Prison Camp, 16 March 1864.

SAMUEL SPRINGER
Private, Company "H", 1st WEST VIRGINIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

WWII

JOHN WILLIAM "JACK" CUNNINGHAM
Born 1 February 1924, Boggs Run, Marshall County, West Virginia.
US NAVY (1942-1945): Served at Navy Operating Base, Palermo, Sicily. Other ships: LST-4, USS DONNER, USS NEW YORK.